Gays need professional help

THE EDITOR: For those who came in late, years ago local singing group Wildfire sang a beautiful, eye-opening song that went something like this: “What is gonna happen, in a little while from now, when our time has passed away, and the world has turned around?

Children now I see, wondering by the streets, hunger and poverty, someone protect their destiny. But who’s gonna be the one? Who’s gonna be around, I hope their times won’t be sad.”

It is amazing but maybe not surprising that while the songwriter says he sees children wondering by the streets in hunger and poverty and asks us to say a little prayer for them, he goes on to say, “So their hearts will be filled with joy, love and harmony.”

And that is the reality of many children today in TT. While there may be isolated incidences of children not being properly or inadequately fed, it’s not so much about the lack of food, it’s about poverty in mental and spiritual nurturing.

And it brings to mind this gender matter that is presently on our national agenda.

We need to be reminded that this issue did not suddenly flare up in our faces today but it grew slowly but surely over the decades. Forty plus years ago, the practitioners of this habit dared not openly display a hint of enthusiasm for this abnormal preference.

However, our heavy alcoholic consumption and revelry lifestyle over the years gave this unnatural tradition an avenue to grow, and grow it did.

“Straight” men virtually poured scorn on this practice in conversation, but under the influence of liquor and in their carousing mood, they secretly sought “the experience” with already gay men, and it is this mistake on the part of “straight” men that fuelled this practice and gave it a sense of acceptance. And so today it has reached a supposedly “accepted” level, or so they (gays) think.

No one can say for sure where or how this perverted custom originated, but biblical scriptures are recorded as condemning it thousands of years ago. While some people may claim to have been born that way, qualified people in the psychoanalysis field may disagree and give various causes such as couples wishing for a girl child and getting a boy and instinctively treating him like a girl until it’s too late to return to the natural order of things.

Whatever or however its origin, we need to admit and accept that this practice is not only unnatural but also carries the risk of sexually transmitted diseases. And while it is impossible to ban people from making unnatural and immoral bedroom choices, for our children and by extension the nation’s future, society must not condone these debasing practices by legalising it.

We need to show some degree of concern for our children and the generations to come. We’ve already permitted this ritual to reach too far. Can we really speak to our children in a corrective and disciplinary manner and at the same time support this obviously disgraceful practice?

They may never admit it but people caught up in this practice evidently need professional help. They may claim that there is where they find love, but as my father always says, “Love rejoices not in iniquity but love rejoices in truth.” And the truth is, this practice is unnatural and immoral.

LLOYD RAGOO, Chaguanas